Research for Children

If your child is between 6 and 18 years of age, you can play an important role in research by volunteering for a free and confidential study conducted by the McPartland Lab at the Yale School of Medicine.

We are seeking children diagnosed with either autism, intellectual disability, or who are neurotypical.

Email autism@yale.edu

Call 203-737-3439 or

Fill out a brief form and we will contact you.

This project studies attention to social images in autistic children with intellectual disability (ID) and non-autistic children with ID. We are studying behavior and brain systems to better understand the different ways these children experience the social world. Participation involves one or two visits to our offices where children and families will talk to a clinician, complete questionnaires, and watch videos while their brain waves and movement are recorded. Children will receive a clinical evaluation and report as well as compensation of $120.

The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT) is a research study to understand how we can better measure social skills in school-age autistic children. We are currently recruiting both typically developing children and children with a diagnosis of autism between the ages of 6 and 11 years old. A diagnostic and cognitive evaluation is provided to all participants at no cost and participants will be compensated $300.

To learn more about the ABC-CT study you can visit asdbiomarkers.org for additional information.

This study researches brain responses to eye contact in autistic and neurotypical children. The project studies behavior and brain systems to better understand how autistic children perceive and respond to eye contact from others. Participation involves one visit to our lab where individuals will talk to a clinician, complete questionnaires, and watch videos while their brain waves are recorded with an electroencephalogram (EEG). Participants will receive a clinical evaluation and report as well as compensation of $60.

Please note that we are currently only enrolling non-autistic male participants in this study.

This project studies how teens interact with peers in a computer game and in everyday life. Participation includes one or two visits to our lab where families will talk to a clinician, complete questionnaires, and teens will do computer activities while their brain waves are recorded with an electroencephalogram (EEG). Adolescents will also answer some questions on a cell phone app for a few days after their visit is over. We are currently recruiting teems between 13 and 17 years old. Participants will receive a clinical evaluation, assessment report, and compensation up to $100.

We are not currently enrolling participants in this study, but we are working to begin soon!

This study evaluates how brain cells develop in biologically male autistic and neurotypical children. Skin cells will be used to generate stem cells containing unique information that will allow us to study the process of brain development in the laboratory. We hope that this study will help us learn more about the brain mechanisms involved in autism in order to find better ways of supporting autistic people.

Collaborator: Dr. Flora Vaccarino

We are not currently enrolling participants in this study.